happiness to know
that it is a rising and
not a setting sun
“I have often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President, without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: but now at length, I have the happiness to know, that it is a rising and not a setting sun.”
Ben Franklin as quoted in September 17, 1787: A Republic, If You Can Keep It at https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/constitutionalconvention-september17.htm
Dr. Franklin is supposed to have said this or wrote this to James Madison or Mr. Madison remembered Dr. Franklin saying this when the United States Constitutional Convention finished their work.
Maybe it was one of those things that was too good for someone not to have said so history decided Dr. Franklin said it.
He was famous for saying things he never said and his autobiography might not have been the way it happened but surely, was the way it should have happened.
BUT I DIGRESS!
Dr. Franklin is supposed to have been looking at the designed carved into the back of the chair of the President of the Constitutional Convention, a feller named George Washington.
Driving to work this morning I new that as I looked east I was seeing the sun rise out of the Atlantic Ocean.
It matched my spirits.
Hopefully, if Dr. Franklin was around today and watching CNN he might once again say, “I have the happiness to know, that it is a rising and not a setting sun.“
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